-- Posted by yoshiness at 9:11 pm on June 3, 2009 Is anyone familiar on how to uninstall it without damaging my hard drive, formatting, etc.? I love Linux, I truly do, but I just hate Debian. I'd like to get 40 GB back to use for Windows. -- Posted by so it goes at 9:15 pm on June 3, 2009 Easiest option is probably formatting, but I would assume you can simply load a livecd of some kind and delete everything, depending on how you have your drive partitioned. -- Posted by yoshiness at 9:17 pm on June 3, 2009 Quote: from so it goes at 11:15 pm on June 3, 2009 Easiest option is probably formatting, but I would assume you can simply load a livecd of some kind and delete everything, depending on how you have your drive partitioned. I have Debian on 1 partition, and Windows on another. Don't suggest formatting. I have WAY too much to back up, and not enough storage to do so. -- Posted by so it goes at 9:31 pm on June 3, 2009 Then yeah, so far as my knowledge goes, you can delete the Debian files while in a livecd and keep what you need to keep. If your linux partition is formatted to ext3 or ext2, which I assume it probably is, you may need to go to great lengths to make Windows read and write to it. There are some utilities available that let Windows do this, but I've had sketchy results with every one I've used. -- Posted by Sector Corrupt at 10:21 pm on June 3, 2009 So wait, are you trying to reclaim the entire space Debian was filling? since any method of reclaiming your space will really have sort of poor results if you don't just back up the data on the Debian partition and delete it. I've not actually used Debian, but I've used Debian based systems(aka Ubuntu(the shame, I know, noobtastic, but it's easy to use when I'm not using Arch)), what exactly is it about Debian you hate? -- Posted by espresso8097 at 11:03 pm on June 3, 2009 You delete partition, make sure it is free space.  Then use a partitioning tool (GParted works) to resize the partition to the full size. Never been able to get Debian to work out well for me, more of a Fedora person. -- Posted by anonomouse at 12:56 am on June 30, 2009 Use the Gparted livecd (I trust you can figure out how to use it). Delete your Debian partition (make sure you know which one it is) and resize your windows partition to fill the rest of the hard drive.